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SOLVING ORGANIZING PROBLEMS AT BAL HARBOUR
MEMORANDUM
December 20, 1967
To: All AFL-CIO
International Union Presidents
From: William L. Kircher,
Director of Organization
Re: First annual AFL-CIO
Organizing Conference
December 10, 1967, Bal Harbour, Florida
We are pleased to report to you that 120 delegates
attended the AFL-CIO Organizing Conference representing 50 national and
international unions.
This conference was not meant to be a cure-all but
rather to stimulate additional interest in solving the problems in
organizing the 32 million unorganized workers eligible to be members of
the AFL-CIO
The Directors and Assistant Directors of the AFL-CIO
Organizing department presented three topics:
1. How to use the NLRB
2. Danger points in Organizing
3. The need for quality organizing
Paul Hall, Chairman of the AFL-CIO Executive
Council's Organizing Committee expressed appreciation on behalf of the
Executive Council for the attendance at this conference and stressed the
need for the cooperation of all AFL-CIO unions to complete the need for
the cooperation of all AFL-CIO unions to complete the task of organizing
the unorganized. Chairman Hall expressed his full commitment and support
to all AFL-CIO unions to complete the organizing of the unorganized in
their respective jurisdictions.
Discussion from the floor was opened and the
following points from the floor were made:
1. The need for a training program for new organizers
to be held several times a year in a central location.
2. A training program for organizers that would be
established on a systematic regular continuing basis at a fixed
location.
3. A training program specifically designed to appeal
to young workers between the ages of 21 and 30.
4. The development of visual aids in portfolio form
for house visits.
5. Utilizing the skills of retired union members.
6. Appreciation was expressed by various
representatives for the benefits their organizers had received through
participation of the AFL-CIO Organizing Department in organizing
training programs and cooperative organizing programs. (It was suggested
that if any national or international union had not taken advantage of
this special training program and cooperative organizing program, they
should get in touch with the AFL-CIO Organizing Department.
7. It was suggested that AFL-CIO, in cooperation with
all national and international unions, have a program of examining and
defining the corporate structure of the various industries so as to be
able to organize on a cooperative and cooperative basis (quality
organizing).
8. Because of the conspiratorial activity of
companies in the South, it was suggested that special concentration be
given to this area (quality organizing).
9. The need for more and up-to-date staff training
programs.
10. The need for quality rather than quantity
organizing. The thought behind this was that we could improve on our
number of wins by concentrating on quality organizing rather than
quantity organizing. For example, if the average number of wins are in
the 50% area, by reducing the number of campaigns and concentrating on
quality, we might easily raise it to 58, 59 or 60%.
11. An analysis by the Department of Organization
(and shown on charts) proved that a change of 7% of the vote in 18% of
the elections held would have resulted in 150,000 more AFL-CIO members.
12. Need for involving all departments of
international and national unions and AFL-CIO in organizing campaigns.
(the same emphasis used in collective bargaining must be adapted to
organizing.)
13. There was unanimous expression of approval for
the institution of an exchange program of ideas -- a clearinghouse for
methods and ideas.
14. There should be a continuation of this type of
conference with particular emphasis on sub-committee of Directors of
Organization at it relates to their particular jurisdiction (to solve
problems and coordinate field operations).
The overwhelming response to this conference and the enthusiasm of
the delegates is gratefully acknowledged by the AFL-CIO Department of
Organization and we look forward to implementing, with your help, the
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Mass Incarceration in the Age of
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By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
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scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
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segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
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colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
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incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
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public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
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may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
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and thoroughly readable book should
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Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
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